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SharePoint Online: User Permissions Audit Report for a Site Collection using PnP PowerShell

November 2, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 102 Comments get sharepoint online site and subsites permission using powershell, get sharepoint online site permissions powershell, permission report in sharepoint online, powershell script to check user permissions sharepoint online, powershell to get user permissions in sharepoint online, sharepoint online get all user permissions powershell, sharepoint online permissions report, sharepoint online permissions report powershell, sharepoint online pnp powershell get user permissions, sharepoint online powershell get all user permissions, sharepoint online site collection permissions report using powershell, sharepoint online site permissions report powershell, sharepoint online user permissions report powershell

Requirement: Need a report to audit SharePoint Online site collection permissions.

SharePoint Online: User Permissions report in a Site Collection using PnP PowerShell

Auditing SharePoint Online Site permissions is critical for security, as misconfigured permissions may enable users to access to data that they should not have access to. So, regular auditing of SharePoint permissions is crucial to minimizing the risk of data leaks and compliance violations. As there are no out-of-the-box ways to generate a permission report, we can utilize PowerShell to get a list of effective permissions for your SharePoint site collections. This PowerShell script generates a permission report on all objects such as the SharePoint Online Site collection and its subsites, lists and libraries, folders, and list items which has unique permissions on the given site collection. It scans through the following securables and produces a SharePoint Online security report:

Site collection administrators group
Given site collection and sub-sites with unique permissions
All lists and libraries with unique permissions
All list items (and folders) with unique permissions.

You must add the account that runs this PowerShell Scripts as “Site Collection Administrator” to all sites!
How to Add Site Collection Administrator to All SharePoint Online Sites?

SharePoint Online PowerShell Permissions Report

Let’s build a SharePoint Online security report with PowerShell. Here is the PnP PowerShell script to generate a user permissions report for a SharePoint Online site collection! Set the SiteURL and ReportFile parameters in the script according to your environment and execute the script. You’ll get a prompt to enter username and Password.

#Function to Get Permissions Applied on a particular Object, such as: Web, List, Folder or List Item
Function Get-PnPPermissions([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject]$Object)
{
    #Determine the type of the object
    Switch($Object.TypedObject.ToString())
    {
        "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web"  { $ObjectType = "Site" ; $ObjectURL = $Object.URL; $ObjectTitle = $Object.Title }
        "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItem"
        { 
            If($Object.FileSystemObjectType -eq "Folder")
            {
                $ObjectType = "Folder"
                #Get the URL of the Folder 
                $Folder = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property Folder
                $ObjectTitle = $Object.Folder.Name
                $ObjectURL = $("{0}{1}" -f $Web.Url.Replace($Web.ServerRelativeUrl,''),$Object.Folder.ServerRelativeUrl)
            }
            Else #File or List Item
            {
                #Get the URL of the Object
                Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property File, ParentList
                If($Object.File.Name -ne $Null)
                {
                    $ObjectType = "File"
                    $ObjectTitle = $Object.File.Name
                    $ObjectURL = $("{0}{1}" -f $Web.Url.Replace($Web.ServerRelativeUrl,''),$Object.File.ServerRelativeUrl)
                }
                else
                {
                    $ObjectType = "List Item"
                    $ObjectTitle = $Object["Title"]
                    #Get the URL of the List Item
                    $DefaultDisplayFormUrl = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object.ParentList -Property DefaultDisplayFormUrl                     
                    $ObjectURL = $("{0}{1}?ID={2}" -f $Web.Url.Replace($Web.ServerRelativeUrl,''), $DefaultDisplayFormUrl,$Object.ID)
                }
            }
        }
        Default 
        { 
            $ObjectType = "List or Library"
            $ObjectTitle = $Object.Title
            #Get the URL of the List or Library
            $RootFolder = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property RootFolder     
            $ObjectURL = $("{0}{1}" -f $Web.Url.Replace($Web.ServerRelativeUrl,''), $RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl)
        }
    }
  
    #Get permissions assigned to the object
    Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments, RoleAssignments

    #Check if Object has unique permissions
    $HasUniquePermissions = $Object.HasUniqueRoleAssignments
    
    #Loop through each permission assigned and extract details
    $PermissionCollection = @()
    Foreach($RoleAssignment in $Object.RoleAssignments)
    { 
        #Get the Permission Levels assigned and Member
        Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $RoleAssignment -Property RoleDefinitionBindings, Member

        #Get the Principal Type: User, SP Group, AD Group
        $PermissionType = $RoleAssignment.Member.PrincipalType
   
        #Get the Permission Levels assigned
        $PermissionLevels = $RoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings | Select -ExpandProperty Name

        #Remove Limited Access
        $PermissionLevels = ($PermissionLevels | Where { $_ -ne "Limited Access"}) -join ","

        #Leave Principals with no Permissions
        If($PermissionLevels.Length -eq 0) {Continue}

        #Get SharePoint group members
        If($PermissionType -eq "SharePointGroup")
        {
            #Get Group Members
            $GroupMembers = Get-PnPGroupMember -Identity $RoleAssignment.Member.LoginName
                
            #Leave Empty Groups
            If($GroupMembers.count -eq 0){Continue}
            $GroupUsers = ($GroupMembers | Select -ExpandProperty Title) -join ","

            #Add the Data to Object
            $Permissions = New-Object PSObject
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Object($ObjectType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Title($ObjectTitle)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty URL($ObjectURL)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty HasUniquePermissions($HasUniquePermissions)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Users($GroupUsers)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Type($PermissionType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Permissions($PermissionLevels)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty GrantedThrough("SharePoint Group: $($RoleAssignment.Member.LoginName)")
            $PermissionCollection += $Permissions
        }
        Else
        {
            #Add the Data to Object
            $Permissions = New-Object PSObject
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Object($ObjectType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Title($ObjectTitle)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty URL($ObjectURL)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty HasUniquePermissions($HasUniquePermissions)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Users($RoleAssignment.Member.Title)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Type($PermissionType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Permissions($PermissionLevels)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty GrantedThrough("Direct Permissions")
            $PermissionCollection += $Permissions
        }
    }
    #Export Permissions to CSV File
    $PermissionCollection | Export-CSV $ReportFile -NoTypeInformation -Append
}
  
#Function to get sharepoint online site permissions report
Function Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt()
{
[cmdletbinding()]

    Param  
    (    
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [String] $SiteURL, 
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [String] $ReportFile,         
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [switch] $Recursive,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [switch] $ScanItemLevel,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [switch] $IncludeInheritedPermissions        
    )  
    Try {
        #Connect to the Site
        Connect-PnPOnline -URL $SiteURL -Interactive
        #Get the Web
        $Web = Get-PnPWeb

        Write-host -f Yellow "Getting Site Collection Administrators..."
        #Get Site Collection Administrators
        $SiteAdmins = Get-PnPSiteCollectionAdmin
        
        $SiteCollectionAdmins = ($SiteAdmins | Select -ExpandProperty Title) -join ","
        #Add the Data to Object
        $Permissions = New-Object PSObject
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Object("Site Collection")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Title($Web.Title)
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty URL($Web.URL)
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty HasUniquePermissions("TRUE")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Users($SiteCollectionAdmins)
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Type("Site Collection Administrators")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Permissions("Site Owner")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty GrantedThrough("Direct Permissions")
              
        #Export Permissions to CSV File
        $Permissions | Export-CSV $ReportFile -NoTypeInformation
  
        #Function to Get Permissions of All List Items of a given List
        Function Get-PnPListItemsPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.List]$List)
        {
            Write-host -f Yellow "`t `t Getting Permissions of List Items in the List:"$List.Title
 
            #Get All Items from List in batches
            $ListItems = Get-PnPListItem -List $List -PageSize 500
 
            $ItemCounter = 0
            #Loop through each List item
            ForEach($ListItem in $ListItems)
            {
                #Get Objects with Unique Permissions or Inherited Permissions based on 'IncludeInheritedPermissions' switch
                If($IncludeInheritedPermissions)
                {
                    Get-PnPPermissions -Object $ListItem
                }
                Else
                {
                    #Check if List Item has unique permissions
                    $HasUniquePermissions = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $ListItem -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments
                    If($HasUniquePermissions -eq $True)
                    {
                        #Call the function to generate Permission report
                        Get-PnPPermissions -Object $ListItem
                    }
                }
                $ItemCounter++
                Write-Progress -PercentComplete ($ItemCounter / ($List.ItemCount) * 100) -Activity "Processing Items $ItemCounter of $($List.ItemCount)" -Status "Searching Unique Permissions in List Items of '$($List.Title)'"
            }
        }

        #Function to Get Permissions of all lists from the given web
        Function Get-PnPListPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web)
        {
            #Get All Lists from the web
            $Lists = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Web -Property Lists
  
            #Exclude system lists
            $ExcludedLists = @("Access Requests","App Packages","appdata","appfiles","Apps in Testing","Cache Profiles","Composed Looks","Content and Structure Reports","Content type publishing error log","Converted Forms",
            "Device Channels","Form Templates","fpdatasources","Get started with Apps for Office and SharePoint","List Template Gallery", "Long Running Operation Status","Maintenance Log Library", "Images", "site collection images"
            ,"Master Docs","Master Page Gallery","MicroFeed","NintexFormXml","Quick Deploy Items","Relationships List","Reusable Content","Reporting Metadata", "Reporting Templates", "Search Config List","Site Assets","Preservation Hold Library",
            "Site Pages", "Solution Gallery","Style Library","Suggested Content Browser Locations","Theme Gallery", "TaxonomyHiddenList","User Information List","Web Part Gallery","wfpub","wfsvc","Workflow History","Workflow Tasks", "Pages")
            
            $Counter = 0
            #Get all lists from the web   
            ForEach($List in $Lists)
            {
                #Exclude System Lists
                If($List.Hidden -eq $False -and $ExcludedLists -notcontains $List.Title)
                {
                    $Counter++
                    Write-Progress -PercentComplete ($Counter / ($Lists.Count) * 100) -Activity "Exporting Permissions from List '$($List.Title)' in $($Web.URL)" -Status "Processing Lists $Counter of $($Lists.Count)"

                    #Get Item Level Permissions if 'ScanItemLevel' switch present
                    If($ScanItemLevel)
                    {
                        #Get List Items Permissions
                        Get-PnPListItemsPermission -List $List
                    }

                    #Get Lists with Unique Permissions or Inherited Permissions based on 'IncludeInheritedPermissions' switch
                    If($IncludeInheritedPermissions)
                    {
                        Get-PnPPermissions -Object $List
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                        #Check if List has unique permissions
                        $HasUniquePermissions = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $List -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments
                        If($HasUniquePermissions -eq $True)
                        {
                            #Call the function to check permissions
                            Get-PnPPermissions -Object $List
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
  
        #Function to Get Webs's Permissions from given URL
        Function Get-PnPWebPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web) 
        {
            #Call the function to Get permissions of the web
            Write-host -f Yellow "Getting Permissions of the Web: $($Web.URL)..."  
            Get-PnPPermissions -Object $Web
  
            #Get List Permissions
            Write-host -f Yellow "`t Getting Permissions of Lists and Libraries..."
            Get-PnPListPermission($Web)

            #Recursively get permissions from all sub-webs based on the "Recursive" Switch
            If($Recursive)
            {
                #Get Subwebs of the Web
                $Subwebs = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Web -Property Webs

                #Iterate through each subsite in the current web
                Foreach ($Subweb in $web.Webs)
                {
                    #Get Webs with Unique Permissions or Inherited Permissions based on 'IncludeInheritedPermissions' switch
                    If($IncludeInheritedPermissions)
                    {
                        Get-PnPWebPermission($Subweb)
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                        #Check if the Web has unique permissions
                        $HasUniquePermissions = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $SubWeb -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments
  
                        #Get the Web's Permissions
                        If($HasUniquePermissions -eq $true) 
                        { 
                            #Call the function recursively                            
                            Get-PnPWebPermission($Subweb)
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        #Call the function with RootWeb to get site collection permissions
        Get-PnPWebPermission $Web
  
        Write-host -f Green "`n*** Site Permission Report Generated Successfully!***"
     }
    Catch {
        write-host -f Red "Error Generating Site Permission Report!" $_.Exception.Message
   }
}
  
#region ***Parameters***
$SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
$ReportFile="C:\Temp\SitePermissionRpt.csv"
#endregion

#Call the function to generate permission report
Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive
#Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive -ScanItemLevel -IncludeInheritedPermissions

This PowerShell script gets the SharePoint Online site and subsites permissions. Here is the permission report generated by this script:

sharepoint online permission report using PnP PowerShell

PowerShell Script to Generate Permission Report for SharePoint Online Site

While the above script serves the purpose, What if you want to include only up to folders but not list items or files in the permission report? In other words, the above script takes a lot of time when dealing with larger lists and libraries when you use -scanitemlevel switch.

#Function to Get Permissions Applied on a particular Object, such as: Web, List or Folder
Function Get-PnPPermissions([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject]$Object)
{
    #Determine the type of the object
    Switch($Object.TypedObject.ToString())
    {
        "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web"  { $ObjectType = "Site" ; $ObjectURL = $Object.URL; $ObjectTitle = $Object.Title }
        "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItem"
        {
            $ObjectType = "Folder"
            #Get the URL of the Folder 
            $Folder = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property Folder
            $ObjectTitle = $Object.Folder.Name
            $ObjectURL = $("{0}{1}" -f $Web.Url.Replace($Web.ServerRelativeUrl,''),$Object.Folder.ServerRelativeUrl)
        }
        Default 
        { 
            $ObjectType = $Object.BaseType #List, DocumentLibrary, etc
            $ObjectTitle = $Object.Title
            #Get the URL of the List or Library
            $RootFolder = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property RootFolder     
            $ObjectURL = $("{0}{1}" -f $Web.Url.Replace($Web.ServerRelativeUrl,''), $RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl)
        }
    }
   
    #Get permissions assigned to the object
    Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Object -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments, RoleAssignments
 
    #Check if Object has unique permissions
    $HasUniquePermissions = $Object.HasUniqueRoleAssignments
     
    #Loop through each permission assigned and extract details
    $PermissionCollection = @()
    Foreach($RoleAssignment in $Object.RoleAssignments)
    { 
        #Get the Permission Levels assigned and Member
        Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $RoleAssignment -Property RoleDefinitionBindings, Member
 
        #Get the Principal Type: User, SP Group, AD Group
        $PermissionType = $RoleAssignment.Member.PrincipalType
    
        #Get the Permission Levels assigned
        $PermissionLevels = $RoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings | Select -ExpandProperty Name
 
        #Remove Limited Access
        $PermissionLevels = ($PermissionLevels | Where { $_ -ne "Limited Access"}) -join "; "
 
        #Leave Principals with no Permissions assigned
        If($PermissionLevels.Length -eq 0) {Continue}
 
        #Check if the Principal is SharePoint group
        If($PermissionType -eq "SharePointGroup")
        {
            #Get Group Members
            $GroupMembers = Get-PnPGroupMember -Identity $RoleAssignment.Member.LoginName
                 
            #Leave Empty Groups
            If($GroupMembers.count -eq 0){Continue}
            $GroupUsers = ($GroupMembers | Select -ExpandProperty Title | Where { $_ -ne "System Account"}) -join "; "
            If($GroupUsers.Length -eq 0) {Continue}

            #Add the Data to Object
            $Permissions = New-Object PSObject
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Object($ObjectType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Title($ObjectTitle)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty URL($ObjectURL)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty HasUniquePermissions($HasUniquePermissions)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Users($GroupUsers)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Type($PermissionType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Permissions($PermissionLevels)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty GrantedThrough("SharePoint Group: $($RoleAssignment.Member.LoginName)")
            $PermissionCollection += $Permissions
        }
        Else #User
        {
            #Add the Data to Object
            $Permissions = New-Object PSObject
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Object($ObjectType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Title($ObjectTitle)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty URL($ObjectURL)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty HasUniquePermissions($HasUniquePermissions)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Users($RoleAssignment.Member.Title)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Type($PermissionType)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Permissions($PermissionLevels)
            $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty GrantedThrough("Direct Permissions")
            $PermissionCollection += $Permissions
        }
    }
    #Export Permissions to CSV File
    $PermissionCollection | Export-CSV $ReportFile -NoTypeInformation -Append
}
   
#Function to get sharepoint online site permissions report
Function Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt()
{
[cmdletbinding()]

    Param  
    (    
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [String] $SiteURL, 
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [String] $ReportFile,         
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [switch] $Recursive,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [switch] $ScanFolders,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [switch] $IncludeInheritedPermissions
    )  
    Try {
        #Connect to the Site
        Connect-PnPOnline -URL $SiteURL -Interactive
        #Get the Web
        $Web = Get-PnPWeb
 
        Write-host -f Yellow "Getting Site Collection Administrators..."
        #Get Site Collection Administrators
        $SiteAdmins = Get-PnPSiteCollectionAdmin
         
        $SiteCollectionAdmins = ($SiteAdmins | Select -ExpandProperty Title) -join "; "
        #Add the Data to Object
        $Permissions = New-Object PSObject
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Object("Site Collection")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Title($Web.Title)
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty URL($Web.URL)
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty HasUniquePermissions("TRUE")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Users($SiteCollectionAdmins)
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Type("Site Collection Administrators")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty Permissions("Site Owner")
        $Permissions | Add-Member NoteProperty GrantedThrough("Direct Permissions")
               
        #Export Permissions to CSV File
        $Permissions | Export-CSV $ReportFile -NoTypeInformation
   
        #Function to Get Permissions of Folders in a given List
        Function Get-PnPFolderPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.List]$List)
        {
            Write-host -f Yellow "`t `t Getting Permissions of Folders in the List:"$List.Title
            
            #Get All Folders from List
            $ListItems = Get-PnPListItem -List $List -PageSize 2000
            $Folders = $ListItems | Where { ($_.FileSystemObjectType -eq "Folder") -and ($_.FieldValues.FileLeafRef -ne "Forms") -and (-Not($_.FieldValues.FileLeafRef.StartsWith("_")))}

            $ItemCounter = 0
            #Loop through each Folder
            ForEach($Folder in $Folders)
            {
                #Get Objects with Unique Permissions or Inherited Permissions based on 'IncludeInheritedPermissions' switch
                If($IncludeInheritedPermissions)
                {
                    Get-PnPPermissions -Object $Folder
                }
                Else
                {
                    #Check if Folder has unique permissions
                    $HasUniquePermissions = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Folder -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments
                    If($HasUniquePermissions -eq $True)
                    {
                        #Call the function to generate Permission report
                        Get-PnPPermissions -Object $Folder
                    }
                }
                $ItemCounter++
                Write-Progress -PercentComplete ($ItemCounter / ($Folders.Count) * 100) -Activity "Getting Permissions of Folders in List '$($List.Title)'" -Status "Processing Folder '$($Folder.FieldValues.FileLeafRef)' at '$($Folder.FieldValues.FileRef)' ($ItemCounter of $($Folders.Count))" -Id 2 -ParentId 1
            }
        }
 
        #Function to Get Permissions of all lists from the given web
        Function Get-PnPListPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web)
        {
            #Get All Lists from the web
            $Lists = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Web -Property Lists
   
            #Exclude system lists
            $ExcludedLists = @("Access Requests","App Packages","appdata","appfiles","Apps in Testing","Cache Profiles","Composed Looks","Content and Structure Reports","Content type publishing error log","Converted Forms",
            "Device Channels","Form Templates","fpdatasources","Get started with Apps for Office and SharePoint","List Template Gallery", "Long Running Operation Status","Maintenance Log Library", "Images", "site collection images"
            ,"Master Docs","Master Page Gallery","MicroFeed","NintexFormXml","Quick Deploy Items","Relationships List","Reusable Content","Reporting Metadata", "Reporting Templates", "Search Config List","Site Assets","Preservation Hold Library",
            "Site Pages", "Solution Gallery","Style Library","Suggested Content Browser Locations","Theme Gallery", "TaxonomyHiddenList","User Information List","Web Part Gallery","wfpub","wfsvc","Workflow History","Workflow Tasks", "Pages")
             
            $Counter = 0
            #Get all lists from the web   
            ForEach($List in $Lists)
            {
                #Exclude System Lists
                If($List.Hidden -eq $False -and $ExcludedLists -notcontains $List.Title)
                {
                    $Counter++
                    Write-Progress -PercentComplete ($Counter / ($Lists.Count) * 100) -Activity "Exporting Permissions from List '$($List.Title)' in $($Web.URL)" -Status "Processing Lists $Counter of $($Lists.Count)" -Id 1
 
                    #Get Item Level Permissions if 'ScanFolders' switch present
                    If($ScanFolders)
                    {
                        #Get Folder Permissions
                        Get-PnPFolderPermission -List $List
                    }
 
                    #Get Lists with Unique Permissions or Inherited Permissions based on 'IncludeInheritedPermissions' switch
                    If($IncludeInheritedPermissions)
                    {
                        Get-PnPPermissions -Object $List
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                        #Check if List has unique permissions
                        $HasUniquePermissions = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $List -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments
                        If($HasUniquePermissions -eq $True)
                        {
                            #Call the function to check permissions
                            Get-PnPPermissions -Object $List
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
   
        #Function to Get Webs's Permissions from given URL
        Function Get-PnPWebPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web) 
        {
            #Call the function to Get permissions of the web
            Write-host -f Yellow "Getting Permissions of the Web: $($Web.URL)..." 
            Get-PnPPermissions -Object $Web
   
            #Get List Permissions
            Write-host -f Yellow "`t Getting Permissions of Lists and Libraries..."
            Get-PnPListPermission($Web)
 
            #Recursively get permissions from all sub-webs based on the "Recursive" Switch
            If($Recursive)
            {
                #Get Subwebs of the Web
                $Subwebs = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Web -Property Webs
 
                #Iterate through each subsite in the current web
                Foreach ($Subweb in $web.Webs)
                {
                    #Get Webs with Unique Permissions or Inherited Permissions based on 'IncludeInheritedPermissions' switch
                    If($IncludeInheritedPermissions)
                    {
                        Get-PnPWebPermission($Subweb)
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                        #Check if the Web has unique permissions
                        $HasUniquePermissions = Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $SubWeb -Property HasUniqueRoleAssignments
   
                        #Get the Web's Permissions
                        If($HasUniquePermissions -eq $true) 
                        { 
                            #Call the function recursively                            
                            Get-PnPWebPermission($Subweb)
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
 
        #Call the function with RootWeb to get site collection permissions
        Get-PnPWebPermission $Web
   
        Write-host -f Green "`n*** Site Permission Report Generated Successfully!***"
     }
    Catch {
        write-host -f Red "Error Generating Site Permission Report!" $_.Exception.Message
   }
}
   
#region ***Parameters***
$SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/legal/"
$ReportFile="C:\Temp\Legal-SitePermissionRpt.csv"
#endregion
 
#Call the function to generate permission report
Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -ScanFolders

#Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive -ScanFolders -IncludeInheritedPermissions

Use the “-Recursive” switch to get SharePoint Online site and subsite permissions using PowerShell. This report can be helpful in auditing site permissions and ensuring that only authorized users have access to sensitive information.

How to Generate Report for All Site Collections in the Tenant?

We can just call the function for all sites in the tenant and generate permission reports for sites:

#Connect to Admin Center
$TenantAdminURL = "https://crescent-admin.SharePoint.com"
$Cred = Get-Credential
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantAdminURL -Credentials $Cred
  
#Get All Site collections - Exclude: Seach Center, Redirect site, Mysite Host, App Catalog, Content Type Hub, eDiscovery and Bot Sites
$SitesCollections = Get-PnPTenantSite | Where -Property Template -NotIn ("SRCHCEN#0","REDIRECTSITE#0", "SPSMSITEHOST#0", "APPCATALOG#0", "POINTPUBLISHINGHUB#0", "EDISC#0", "STS#-1")
  
#Loop through each site collection
ForEach($Site in $SitesCollections)
{
    #Connect to site collection
    $SiteConn = Connect-PnPOnline -Url $Site.Url -Credentials $Cred
    Write-host "Generating Report for Site:"$Site.Url

    #Call the Function for site collection
    $ReportFile = "C:\Temp\$($Site.URL.Replace('https://','').Replace('/','_')).CSV"
    Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $Site.URL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive
}

Replace the #Region *** Parameters *** with the above script to generate a report for all sites in your tenant.

Salaudeen Rajack

Salaudeen Rajack - SharePoint Expert with Two decades of SharePoint Experience. Love to Share my knowledge and experience with the SharePoint community, through real-time articles!

102 thoughts on “SharePoint Online: User Permissions Audit Report for a Site Collection using PnP PowerShell”

Jon Male
November 23, 2022 at 7:46 PM
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Hi there – hope you can help.

Like a number of people above, I’m also getting the error: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Web’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value…

I’ve tried updating the module with
Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline

Have also tried replacing Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web with $Web on the line:
Function Get-PnPListPermission([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web)
to:
Function Get-PnPListPermission($Web)

Error remains.

Salaudeen, are you able to offer a complete answer to resolve these issues? Thanks so much. Appreciate your work.
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Karsh
November 22, 2022 at 8:22 AM
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Hi Salaudeen,
Is it possible to run this report for a specific user UPN?
Thanks
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Simon
November 22, 2022 at 5:41 AM
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Hey! im having some issues with the script, I keep getting this error: “Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Object’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject”.

I’ve already tried doing as mentionned above by removing [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]”. E.g. Instead of [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web , Use just: $Web and also doing the update https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2019/02/import-module-could-not-load-type-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-designpackagetype-from-assembly.html. Both without any success.

What type of arguments or object types does the command accept when running : Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive -IncludeInheritedPermissions

im asking cause $SiteURL and $ReportFile are both strings in my case.
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Frederick
November 21, 2022 at 3:36 AM
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Asking here as well:
I’ll ask here because Microsoft support was unable to help me. I have a mixed bag here. My SharePoint Online has a combination of Site Owners in for of individuals (shown by email address), Site Groups and o365 Groups. So If I run one of your nice reports, I’ll get the details of the Site Owners and I think the Site Group owner too, but the row with groups and does not mention members, are o365 groups that are the Site Owner. Do you have a combo script that would allow me to get the Site name, Permissions, Site Owner, Site Group Ower and o365 Group Members (because they would be the site owner group)?
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Alexander
November 9, 2022 at 6:01 PM
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Thanks your script helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing.

I would like to ask a question, when the permissions report is generated it appears the name of the group (Libraries created by Microsoft 365) as Name Library Owners and Name Library Members. Is it possible in the script to inform that they are the members and owners of this group instead of showing the name of the group?
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  November 9, 2022 at 6:53 PM
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  Sure! Use the second script in this post.
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Moe S
October 25, 2022 at 3:13 PM
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Hi Salaudeen. Love this site and thanks for all your scripts. However with the script to check folder permissions (NOT files) I keep getting this error in PowerShell 5 and 7 on Windows 11:

PS C:\Users\Moe\Desktop\PowerShell_Scripts> .\Site_Permissions_Report_FOLDERS.ps1
Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt: C:\Users\Moe\Desktop\PowerShell_Scripts\Site_Permissions_Report_FOLDERS.ps1:289
Line |
289 | … ePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -ScanFolders
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~
| A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘ScanFolders’.

PS C:\Users\Moe\Desktop\PowerShell_Scripts> Get-Module PnP.PowerShell -ListAvailable | Select-Object Name,Version

Name Version
—- ——-
PnP.PowerShell 1.11.0
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 25, 2022 at 7:18 PM
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  Use the script under “PowerShell Script to Generate Permission Report for SharePoint Online Site”.
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  - Moe S
    October 28, 2022 at 8:17 PM
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    Thank you so much Salaudeen, that worked this time. Much appreciated as always 🙂
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Joe B
August 24, 2022 at 7:13 PM
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I needed to use “-UseWebLogin” instead of “-interactive”.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  August 24, 2022 at 8:11 PM
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  Well, this is because you are running the legacy version of PnP PowerShell – that is no longer up to date! You can Update to the new PnP PowerShell Module to avail latest features. How to Install the PnP PowerShell Module for SharePoint Online?
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Matías Penelas
August 24, 2022 at 2:32 AM
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Hi, works fine for me. Have a answer. How can i view like the capture of the excel report ?
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  August 24, 2022 at 8:12 PM
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  Just format the Generated CSV as a Table in Microsoft Excel!
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Rafique Khan
March 18, 2022 at 2:24 AM
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I keep getting a permission denied message when I try to use -interactive. What can I do to fix that?

Thank you.
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Rafique Khan
March 15, 2022 at 10:11 AM
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Thank you for this wonderful script.

I have one question, that I hope you can help with. In order for me to see the user’s part of a group, I need to run Get-UnifiedGroupLinks and add it to the script correct? Since I have a few users added directly and a few part of Office 365 groups.
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Aaron R
February 17, 2022 at 11:32 PM
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Hello, I get an error stating “Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt” is not recognized as a cmdlet
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- Salaudeen Rajack
  February 18, 2022 at 8:16 AM
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  Your script must include the function Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt on its top portion! So, copy-paste the first script in this article to yours.
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Lok Ken Wong
February 12, 2022 at 4:54 PM
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Hi Salaudeen,

Thanks, for some odd reason the webpage did not display line 2
“$TenantAdminURL = “https://crescent-admin.SharePoint.com””

When I enter the domain address and enter my username/password I get the following error:

Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt : The term ‘Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.
At line:18 char:5
+ Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $Site.URL -ReportFile $Rep .

I have the pnp version 1.9.0 installed

PnP.PowerShell PSGallery Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices PowerShell …
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  February 13, 2022 at 3:55 PM
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  Looks, your script did not include the Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt function defined in the article!
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Lok Ken Wong
February 11, 2022 at 2:42 PM
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When I run the script for the all site report I get the following error below.

It prompts me to enter my details and afterwards it errors out. Am I doing something incorrectly?

Connect-PnPOnline : Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘Url’ because it is null.
At line:3 char:24
+ Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantAdminURL -Credentials $Cred
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Connect-PnPOnline], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationErrorNullNotAllowed,PnP.PowerShell.Commands.Base.ConnectOnlin
e

Get-PnPTenantSite : There is currently no connection yet. Use Connect-PnPOnline to connect.
At line:6 char:21
+ $SitesCollections = Get-PnPTenantSite | Where -Property Template -Not …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-PnPTenantSite], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException,PnP.PowerShell.Commands.GetTenantSite
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  February 11, 2022 at 2:48 PM
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  Make sure you replace the $TenantAdminURL variable with your SharePoint Admin Center URL! E.g., $TenantAdminURL = “https://YOURDOMAIN-admin.SharePoint.com”
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Brian
January 28, 2022 at 3:33 AM
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Thanks for the hard work on this, I’m getting the following timeout error, it’s delivering some output to the CSV file, but not making it through in a timely fashion I guess “Error Generating Site Permission Report! The cloud operation was not completed before the time-out period expired.”

Any thoughts on extending the timeout period?
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Joanna
November 30, 2021 at 12:43 PM
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in line 269 I added the -IncludeInheritedPermissions parameter and got the full report
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Anonymous
November 26, 2021 at 5:55 AM
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Initially this feels like a conflict between the various versions of the CSOM sdk. The PnP Cmdlets come with the CSOM SDK included, so you don’t have to install that SDK. The downloadable SDK is most likely also older than the one that comes with the PnP Cmdlets (the PnP cmdlets are always using the latest SDK, usually before the downloadable package is updated by MS). My initial try would be to uninstall the SDK (which installs the SDK into the GAC, which is generally a ‘bad’ thing).
(citation: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-developer/error-when-using-pnp-powershell-and-csom/m-p/33781)
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Joanna
November 24, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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Thank you for your response. I was able to run the scripts you posted. However, I noticed that the first script does not report permissions if a subsite inherits permissions even though the objects it contains (subsequent subsites, libraries, lists, etc.) have unique permissions. The report ignores the subsite and the objects it contains. Do you know how to fix it?
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Anonymous
November 23, 2021 at 4:39 PM
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I am receiving the following error:

Error Generating Site Permission Report! A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘Interactive’.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  November 23, 2021 at 5:30 PM
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  You are running legacy version of PnP PowerShell! either upgrade or use -useweblogin
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MIchael
November 18, 2021 at 6:31 PM
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Thanks for the really useful script, much appreciated.
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Anonymous
October 11, 2021 at 7:28 PM
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Thanks for the script it’s been really useful and has worked really well. I just wanted to see if it it’s possible to have it so the script goes over all of the subsites in the site collection.

Cheers,

Jake
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 13, 2021 at 5:00 PM
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  Hi Jake, Sure – Just use the “-Recursive” switch! E.g.
  Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive
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Joanna Kopec
October 5, 2021 at 1:00 PM
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Hi, I’m looking for a sharepoint 365 permission reporting tool. I’m a site collection administrator but unfortunately I don’t have tenant permission. Could you help me?
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 5, 2021 at 8:15 PM
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  Having a site collection admin rights for a particular site collection is enough for this script!
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needus222
September 10, 2021 at 5:20 PM
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Hats off to Salaudeen for this work!

I had some issues expanding O365 group members and security group members, and a very, very long runtime when using itemlevel, so I made a few (major) modifications:https://www.lieben.nu/liebensraum/2021/09/sharepoint-permission-auditing/
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Alex
August 25, 2021 at 10:06 PM
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Yep, instead of -credential use -Interactive
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Patrick
August 13, 2021 at 12:14 PM
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Hi Saludeen,
any way to do the loop with MFA admin account?
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- Micki
  September 13, 2022 at 3:34 PM
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  Did you find a solution to loop with MFA?
  else you need to click a lot of times 🙁
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  - Salaudeen RajackPost author
    September 13, 2022 at 4:56 PM
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    Remove the “Disconnect-PnPOnline” from the script! That will cache the last connection’s credentials and suppress login prompts.
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tejas
July 7, 2021 at 12:21 PM
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How can i declare Multiple sites in there? i would like to generate Sites and Sub sites at one instance and not to run the script with separate URL?
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chewy
July 5, 2021 at 7:07 AM
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Hi, this script doesn’t work for me. Is there an update to it? I receive 401 unauthorized errors. thanks!
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- Salaudeen Rajack
  February 18, 2022 at 8:08 AM
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  Refer here to fix 401 Unauthorized error: SharePoint Online: Fix “The remote server returned an error (401) Unauthorized” Error in PowerShell
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Katt
March 31, 2021 at 8:19 PM
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I am pulling “Error Generating Site Permission Report! Could not find a part of the path ‘C:TempLegal-SitePermissionRpt.csv’.”
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- Salaudeen Rajack
  February 18, 2022 at 8:05 AM
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  Apparently, the output CSV file path is wrong! Create a Folder in C:\, E.g “Temp” and set the path variable $ReportFile in the script.
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Anonymous
March 24, 2021 at 8:18 PM
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This was answered previously. I follow these steps and it resolved the error:
https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2019/02/import-module-could-not-load-type-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-designpackagetype-from-assembly.html
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WC
March 19, 2021 at 4:16 PM
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Does it report on files/folders shared? Thanks!
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vas
March 11, 2021 at 4:36 AM
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Is it possible to get report for â€œeveryoneâ€ and and â€œeveryone except external usersâ€ only? Can we add a switch or something?
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Anonymous
March 3, 2021 at 12:36 AM
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I am getting this error.
Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Web’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web”
still getting the same error after update the PnP Module: Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline
Please advise
Thanks,
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Anonymous
March 3, 2021 at 12:32 AM
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I am getting the same error
Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Web’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.Sh
arePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web”.
still get the same error after update PnP Module: Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline
Please advise

Thanks,
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Anonymous
February 22, 2021 at 10:24 PM
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Doesn’t work in VSCode I guess?

Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Web’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web”.
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Unknown
February 22, 2021 at 11:06 AM
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Hello there,

Thanks for this site, really helpful.
I don’t know much about PS scripting or PS at all really.

I need to know how to include a listing of all the actual files in the report but also importantly need to include unique sharing permissions, (the permissions that come from sharing links).

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks
Kyle
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Anonymous
February 4, 2021 at 4:05 PM
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Hello,

I get issue after issue with the pnp commandlets… not found etc.. Anyone know why?

Error Generating Site Permission Report! The term ‘Connect-PnPOnline’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Error Generating Site Permission Report! The term ‘Get-PnPSiteCollectionAdmin’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or oper
able program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
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Unknown
December 7, 2020 at 7:59 PM
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Is there a way to perform this script on a subsite, for instance: xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/Shared%20Documents/ ? Or even to specify further from there?
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ndotj
November 23, 2020 at 4:06 PM
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Thank you greatly for this script! Is there a way to make use of the “All sites in tenant” part of the script, but add it all to one CSV instead of one-per site collection?
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  November 23, 2020 at 6:20 PM
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  You can use the last script under section “How to Generate Report for All Site Collections in the Tenant?”, Replace the $ReportFile variable with a path. E.g. “C:\ReportsPermissionRpt.csv”
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- ndotj
  November 23, 2020 at 7:33 PM
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  That seems to just overwrite the report with the most recent collections info. It doesn’t append.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  November 25, 2020 at 4:54 AM
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  Use -Append switch in Export-CSV cmdlets.
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- ndotj
  November 30, 2020 at 2:35 PM
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  That did it. Thanks!
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Ivan Wilson
October 11, 2020 at 7:42 AM
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Great script, thank you. I’ve been getting the following error when I run the first script with -Recursive -ScanItemLevel -IncludeInheritedPermissions enabled.

The collection has not been initialized. It has not been requested or the request has not been executed. It may need to be explicitly requested.

It doesn’t happen every time. I found restarting the PowerShell ISE or breaking it up to process a subset of results helped. There are approximately 9,000 rows in the full report for the site collection. It would appear to be an “out of memory” problem, but it’s failed with 4.7 GB of memory available. Any ideas? It I’m using version 3.25.2009.1 of the SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline module.
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- Ivan Wilson
  October 12, 2020 at 8:19 AM
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  Follow up: I had more success by putting a delay into the end of the loop in Get-PnPListItemsPermission. This may indicate that the problem is with throttling. However, it does mean the code is slower.
  
  # Pause for 10 seconds after every 20 items are processed
  if($ItemCounter % 20 -eq 0)
  {
  Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
  }
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Anonymous
October 8, 2020 at 2:41 PM
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Is there anyway to have this iterate through all site collections at once? Maybe by using Get-PnPTenantSite? I’m newer to using/modifying these large scripts.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 8, 2020 at 7:59 PM
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  Article updated with the script to generate permissions report for all sites!
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- 3mmm
  November 16, 2020 at 11:10 PM
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  When using the last script that iterates through the entire tenant, I am getting the error that “Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt : The term ‘Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,”. I have the latest module 3.25.2009.1 (that works at least, supposedly) of SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline. I have done some research looking for this cmdlet or function. Any help is welcomed
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  November 17, 2020 at 1:17 PM
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  The “Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt” function is defined just above the script! You got to copy that as well (Till Line#260)!
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- 3mmm
  November 17, 2020 at 5:30 PM
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  Thank you so much for your help. I probably need to copy the top script given the -ScanItemLevel parameter to get granular permissions for the tenant, correct? Line #260 doesn’t make since to copy through in the top script, though. I will work my way through this but if you get a chance, I would not mind a second hint. 🙂
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Anonymous
September 16, 2020 at 8:03 AM
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Great work Salaudeen but I keep getting

Get-PnPWeb : The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

Despite using an account with Sharepoint Admin / Site Owner roles ?

If I run

Connect-PnPOnline -URL $SiteURL -Interactive

I get no errors.

But this line

$Web = Get-PnPWeb

Produces he 403 forbidden
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  September 16, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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  Generally 403 Forbidden error tells us the current user doesn’t have permission to the site. SharePoint Admin/Global Admin doesn’t get access to the site automatically unless they are added to the site! The Connect-PnPOnline just authorizes your account and the actual authentication occurs when you try to access objects. So, Make sure the account has permissions to sites!
  
  There could be other reasons as well: Fix for “The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden” in SharePoint Online PowerShell
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Thiago Silva
September 1, 2020 at 2:10 PM
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Nice script. thanks for sharing!
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Avian Decosta
August 23, 2020 at 11:14 AM
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Hello

Is there any way to check who provided the permission using powershell? For example I have one admin group with full permission. This admin group having 4 users, who can add/remove/change users to different group like reader and writer group. I want to track the activities which owner provide add/remove/change the user and how many time user add/removed by particular owner.

I want to do it using PowerShell for SP16 and SPO.

Regards
Avian
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  August 23, 2020 at 6:52 PM
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  Audit Logs/Office 365 Security Audit reports.
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Henry Nguyen
August 6, 2020 at 9:41 PM
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Hi, great script. I was able to use the second script and not the first script. The first script would only evaluate sites, no subsites, no lists, or items. It returns 3 rows (1 Site Collection, and two sites of the site collection). The second script seems to work so much better and I was able to make a loop to iterate through the other sites of a Sharepoint.

Is there a way to write a function Get-PnPItemsPermissions? The item (docx, excel, etc.) could be in a folder or a list. That would help so much and avoid using the -scanitemlevel switch. Thank you so much for your hard work, I’m here to learn!
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  August 23, 2020 at 6:55 PM
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  Use -ScanFolders switch in the 2nd script to limit searching permissions up to the Folders scope! Otherwise, It runs by scanning Item level permissions.
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Anonymous
July 29, 2020 at 4:01 PM
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The script worked fine for me.

However, it’s still not displaying the permissions for a lot of documents having unique permissions.
The library itself has unique permissions so it’s showing for library level but not for file level.
Please let me know what am I missing.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  July 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM
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  Use the First script in this article with -ScanItemLevel switch:
  Generate-PnPSitePermissionRpt -SiteURL $SiteURL -ReportFile $ReportFile -Recursive -ScanItemLevel
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Aland
May 18, 2020 at 9:35 PM
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Getting “The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.” with both Get-PnPWeb and Get-PnpSiteCollectionAdmin commands in either script. I’ve got all the prerequisites installed and working and I’ve tried it on two different computers. 2FA is enabled. Both successfully login. One is also Azure joined. No dice.
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Unknown
May 11, 2020 at 1:18 PM
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How do I capture the email address of the user with permissions too?
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Unknown
April 30, 2020 at 8:55 PM
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Disregard my previous comment. I followed your instructions for fixing the CSOM assemblies in the GAC and it worked perfectly. This is a superb script and a great site overall. Many thanks!!
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Unknown
April 30, 2020 at 5:10 PM
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Getting the following error: Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Object’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject”.

Have tried updating the module but the error remains
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  May 3, 2020 at 8:01 PM
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  Try restarting the PowerShell ISE or PowerShell console. Otherwise, Remove the [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web] type from the parameter!
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Peter
April 16, 2020 at 6:31 AM
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Can I use this script to generate permission for sub-site?
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Unknown
April 15, 2020 at 9:32 PM
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Excellent script, thanks very much.
I had to make one small change in the second script: $folders = @( $listItems | where… )
I think where there is one item, $folders does not have a “count” property and it fails.
Using @() forces it to be an array
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Unknown
March 19, 2020 at 4:36 PM
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This is an excellent work. Thank you very much
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Sean Richards
March 6, 2020 at 4:18 PM
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Hi,

I only seem to be able to report on site permissions. I can not report on unique file and folder permissions which are further down the document library.

Do you know why this is?

Thanks,

Sean
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Steven
March 5, 2020 at 3:55 AM
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Do you have a similar script that work for SharePoint 2016 on-premise?
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  March 5, 2020 at 8:03 PM
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  Here you go: SharePoint 2016 Permission Report using PowerShell
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Anonymous
February 28, 2020 at 1:27 PM
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Can you help Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Object’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint
.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject”.
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Satendra Prasad
February 7, 2020 at 6:51 PM
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Hi,I am getting this error.
Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Web’. Cannot convert the
“Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Clien
t.Web”
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  February 9, 2020 at 6:14 AM
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  Update your PnP Module: Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline
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- Anonymous
  February 18, 2020 at 6:43 AM
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  Still getting same error
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Anonymous
February 4, 2020 at 7:24 PM
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This works perfectly for me needs, thank you so much for sharing your hard work!
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Denis
November 29, 2019 at 8:09 PM
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Thank you for great work and sharing the script! I’ve used your script and adjusted to my needs. The only thing is the speed. If I need to generate a report on a Site Collection with few libraries, which have over 35k files/folders. To run it takes forever. As it have to go through each item/file and check if HasUniqueRoleAssignments=TRUE. Is it any way to speed up this? Any way to get List Items with HasUniqueRoleAssignments True filtered from beginning? Was looking arround on Internet and didn’t find any solutions or suggestions. I’m ok to mix it with CSOM if needed, but didn’t find how yet.
Thanks again for your help!
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  December 10, 2019 at 9:38 AM
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  I understand! But unfortunately, we don’t have any mechanism to handle this issue as of today!
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  December 16, 2019 at 7:34 AM
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  and SharePoint Server Object model offers: SPList.GetItemsWithUniquePermission() method which gets you all items with unique permissions from a List instantly! However, this method is not available in CSOM yet.
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GaoYuan
October 23, 2019 at 4:46 AM
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Thanks for your excellent sharing! But I encounter a problem when I add my site-url value at the end of this method and run this code with the error of ‘Error generating site permission report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Web’. Cannot convert the ‘Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Web’ value of type ‘Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Web’ to type ‘Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Web’. What I have done: connect-SPOService, connect-PnPOnline, and load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies. Can you please to tell me how to figure out this error and export the whole permission report successfully? Thanks a lot.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 30, 2019 at 12:51 PM
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  Try removing explicit type “[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]”. E.g. Instead of [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web]$Web , Use just: $Web
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- Anonymous
  November 21, 2019 at 4:05 PM
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  I’ve tried removing [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web] and it failed. Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Object’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” value of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject”. Please help!.
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  December 10, 2019 at 10:16 AM
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  Looks to me this is due version conflict from CSOM assemblies deployed in GAC! Can you try this: https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2019/02/import-module-could-not-load-type-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-designpackagetype-from-assembly.html
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- Tripwire
  January 9, 2020 at 5:13 AM
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  You’re a legend!
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Unknown
October 16, 2019 at 3:10 AM
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Sorry that after I could not see any items/folder level permission on csv file, do you know what’s wrong with me?
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Caipenglong
October 12, 2019 at 1:53 AM
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it’s really good,thank you!
is it possible to dump all permissions report just for the lists/folders? The code is now exporting every file permissions,and making the csv too big to open
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 12, 2019 at 9:48 PM
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  This should help you: SharePoint Online: Export Site, List, List Item Permissions to CSV using PowerShell
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Anonymous
October 8, 2019 at 2:31 PM
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I was not able to run script and was getting error saying Get-PnPPermissions not recognized. i added Get-PnPGroupPermissions and it worked. I would like to have email address of users too. is it possible for you to modify in such way ?
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- Salaudeen RajackPost author
  October 8, 2019 at 3:31 PM
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  Get-PnPPermissions is a custom function name defined in the top of this script! You can get user Email address with: $RoleAssignment.Member.LoginName .
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  - Joanna
    December 3, 2021 at 3:05 PM
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    Can you tell me how to get the user’s email address with: $ RoleAssignment.Member.LoginName? When I changed to $ GroupMembers = Get-PnPGroupMember -Identity $ RoleAssignment.Member.Email I get “Error Generating Site Permission Report! Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘Group’ because it is null.”
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